ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 35, 16 June 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

HURT PLAYING FOOTBALL

TPkr Press .Association.] Christchurch, June 16

Samuel Plimsoll, 19, died last evening .as the result of injuries received at football. He was a member of the Christchurch Club's third grade team, which played the Boys' High School on Saturday. Apparently, he got kicked on the head, but did not stop playing. He was unconscious yesterday morning and died in the hospital from concussion of the brain. & BURNED TO DEATH. Jane Veitch, 64, was found by her husband in the kitchen of her home about noon yesterday with her clothes on fire. She died in the hospital in the evening. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. Gisborne, June 14. W. Quick was pig-shooting at Matawai with a companion, when the latter accidentally discharged his gun at close range. Quick's leg was badly shattered above the ankle. He was brought into the hospital. SUDDEN DEATH. Invercargill, Juno 14. The -death occurred suddenly on Saturday afternoon, of Mrs Ronald, wife of William Ronald, a retired farmer, and well-known in public life in Southland. Mrs Ronald was proceeding to her home when she had a heart seizure, and she was taken to her daughter's residence, but died a few hours later. Mrs Ronald was a daughter of the late Jas. Wilson, who was Speaker of the Southland Provincial Council in the early days